Biology:Asplenium flaccidum

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Short description: Species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae

Asplenium flaccidum
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Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Division: Polypodiophyta
Class: Polypodiopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Suborder: Aspleniineae
Family: Aspleniaceae
Genus: Asplenium
Species:
A. flaccidum
Binomial name
Asplenium flaccidum

Asplenium flaccidum is a species of fern in the family Aspleniaceae. The plant common name is drooping spleenwort or weeping spleenwort, and the species name flaccidum derives from the Latin root meaning drooping.[1] An example occurrence of A. flaccidum is within a Nothofagus-Podocarp forest at Hamilton Ecological District on New Zealand's North Island in association with other fern species understory plants, crown fern, Blechnum discolor being an example.[2]

Taxonomy

A global phylogeny of Asplenium published in 2020 divided the genus into eleven clades,[3] which were given informal names pending further taxonomic study. A. flaccidum belongs to the "Neottopteris clade", members of which generally have somewhat leathery leaf tissue. It forms a clade with A. appendiculatum and A. chathamense.[4]

References

Line notes

  1. Sue Olsen. 2007
  2. C. Michael Hogan. 2009
  3. Xu et al. 2020, p. 27.
  4. Xu et al. 2020, p. 31.

Wikidata ☰ Q4808127 entry